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Similarly, renewable energy support is scattered around the programmes. While there is a dedicated specific target under Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness, renewables will be part of the efficiency measures mentioned above. The lack of expertise on renewable energy among managing authorities which normally do not deal with this issue, leads to a situation when selection criteria in programmes combining energy efficiency and renewables are not optimised. SETTING THE TARGETS, MONITORING THE IMPACTS In order to be able to monitor EU funding for climate change mitigation, the Operational Programmes include a set of output and outcome indicators. Outcome indicators show the progress of the whole country, but do not track how much of that was actually achieved by EU funds. Surprisingly, output indicators that show real change delivered by EU funds are often missing. The problems the Czech Republic are currently facing with the energy savings target is caused by the improper measurement and accounting of energy savings. Below, we list the climate-related output indicators of the four most relevant programmes. It is surprising how few they are and how incompatible and incomparable they are. Some of them (like the number of households with improved energy classification) do not provide any idea of the volume of savings, despite the fact that this data could be easily retrieved from the energy labels of the buildings. Note also that the biggest of all programmes, Transport, lacks any climate or energy-related targets. Therefore we only include a list of selected indicators at least vaguely related to climate change. Through a lack of indicators, unambitious targets and cumbersome reporting, it is impossible to properly identify the effects that the vast allocation of money to energy efficiency will deliver. In the previous programming period, the Court of Auditors in its reporting on energy efficiency subsidies pointed to low standards and low overall performance in three countries, the Czech Republic among them. We see these issues being repeated in the current period as well. TABLE 11: Greenhouse gas emissions reduction output indicators and targets in programmes OP Indicator Target Unit PRAGUE - POLE OF GROWTH Annual GHG emission reduction 900 tCO2 ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION FOR COMPETITIVNESS Annual GHG emission reduction 480000 tCO2 ENVIRONMENT Annual GHG emission reduction 620000 tCO2 INTEGRATED REGIONAL Annual GHG emission reduction 205221 tCO2 86 ‘Climate’s enfants terribles: how new Member States’ misguided use of EU funds is holding back Europe’s clean energy transition’
TABLE 12: Renewable energy output indicators and targets in programmes OP Indicator Target Unit PRAGUE - POLE OF GROWTH ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION FOR COMPETITIVNESS New renewable energy installed capacity 70 MW ENVIRONMENT New renewable energy installed capacity Heat production from renewables 30 150000 MW GJ/year INTEGRATED REGIONAL TABLE 13: Energy savings output indicators and targets in programmes OP Indicator Target Unit PRAGUE - POLE OF GROWTH Reduction of end-use energy consumption 0,32 PJ / year ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION FOR COMPETITIVNESS ENVIRONMENT Reduction of end-use energy consumption 2 PJ / year INTEGRATED REGIONAL Number of households with improved energy class 75338 pcs. Number of households with improved energy class 25000 pcs. TABLE 14: Selected Operational Programme Transport indicators and targets related to climate change OP Indicator Target Unit TRANSPORT Reconstructed / modernised railway TEN-T 95 Km Reconstructed / modernised railway non TEN-T 45 Km New / reconstructed motorways TEN-T 143 Km New / reconstructed roads non TEN-T 143 Km New or reconstructed metro/tram lines 7,9 Km New rail vehicles 125 pcs. New infrastructure for ecological vehicles (including CNG) 1000 pcs. ‘Climate’s enfants terribles: how new Member States’ misguided use of EU funds is holding back Europe’s clean energy transition’ 87
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TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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safeguard mechanism, the Strategic
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SLOVAKIA HUNGARY ROMANIA CROATIA Sl
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INTRODUCTION PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY
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EU FUNDS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUR
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GRAPH 12: Member States’ GHG emis
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track to carbon-neutral development
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hydropower plants (94%), and the ot
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points to a need for the developmen
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and adaptation, disaster resilience
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significant biomass growing fields.
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